One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
Raymond QueneauBeing or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.
Raymond QueneauFiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey.
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